This source book will help both beginners and experienced woodworkers create accurate, safe jigs and fixtures that cater for almost any need. Features include: the building blocks required to make all jigs and fixtures - including fences, carriages, tables and stops; how to conceptualize the jig then build it to cater for a particular job; materials used and construction techniques; and safety instructions and controlling dust.

A guide to using forty kinds of jigs with ideas for adapting them to different shops and projects.

Covers all aspects of building your dream woodworking shop. Includes 5 basic layouts and dozens of projects.

Improve Your Handtool Woodworking with Traditional Jigs! When traditional woodworkers wanted to improve the speed, accuracy and repeatability of their work, they developed clever jigs and fixtures such as shooting boards, a flexible straight edge and a grass-hopper gauge. But the vast majority of those aids were user-made and disappeared from sight when power tool woodworking took over in the 20th century. The result? Beginning hand-tool woodworkers today often experience unnecessary frustration because they don't know that simple shop-made aids can vastly improve their work. Hand Tool Jigs & Fixtures changes all that. It reintroduces traditional user-made devices, unveils others author Graham Blackburn grew up with, and expands upon those with more recent adaptations and even some manufactured items. Most of the user-made jigs are simple to construct and use. And once you've tried them in your shop you'll quickly see they will make all the difference between frustration and success in your woodworking.

Get the most from your table saw and router while displaying your craftsmanship wth these 26 ingenious projects from the pages of Woodworker's Journal.

Organized according to function, this in-depth, step-by-step guide to building jigs and adding modifications covers all aspects of jig-making, from simple to the elaborate. Full color.